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[Python-Dev] Use ptyhon -s as default shbang for system python executables/daemons

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Mar 21 13:19:40 CET 2015 
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:52:34 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 March 2015 at 07:51, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> > I’ve long wished that the OS had it’s own virtual environment. A lot of problems
> > seems to come from trying to cram the things the OS wants with the things that
> > the user wants into the same namespace.
> 
> I'm more wanting to go in the other direction and suggest to folks
> that if they're not *scripting the OS*, then the system Python isn't
> what they want, and they should be using at least a virtual
> environment,

So that defeats the whole point of having a system distribution.
I don't have any stakes in Debian / RedHat etc., but that sounds
a little bit ridiculous to me ;-) On the other hand, perhaps it would
allow ditching any requests to keep code compatible with old versions
such as 2.6.

Regards

Antoine.
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